Liverpool

Liverpool Rummy is a card game that most people have never heard of. However if your last name is McCabe and you are related to me then you know how to play Liverpool. In many families playing specific card games is popular. Sometimes it's poker, bridge, hearts, golf, rummy, euchre, and hundreds of others. With my family it is Liverpool. If you know how to play basic rummy then you will probably learn Liverpool quickly. However it takes a couple games to learn. You have to memorize runs, groups, buys, how many buys you have, the wild card, how many hands there are and the specific hands. It is a lot to remember. The players usually throw down eighty cents at the beginning and attempt to win their money back and then some. I have been playing Liverpool since I was a little kid. I love playing it, we usually play it at my grandparents house and at family reunions. What is funny to me about the game is that it actually is kind of boring. You just go around over and over again waiting till you have a hand you can lay down then go out and win the hand. The most emotion usually comes at the end of the hand when somebody goes out and wins before another player has laid down there cards so they get stuck with all those points. That really sucks. Either way Liverpool is still one of the funnest games and maybe one day it will be known by more people.